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Glass Bees "Because Tomorrow Disaster May Come" CD and digital download, together with If / When "This Never Happened" cassette and Chris Williams "Waiting, So Tired of Waiting" photozine. For more information about the other releases, see smoothspaceeditions.net.
Includes unlimited streaming of Because Tomorrow Disaster May Come
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Active in New York City from 2005-2013, the Glass Bees began as a studio project to explore improvisation in music, evolving over time into a malleable platform for transmedia art, including installation, video, field recording, sculpture, drawing, photography, painting, text, performance, historical research, and psychogeographical exploration. “Because Tomorrow Disaster May Come” compiles some of the group’s best late studio recordings, originally released one-by-one via a podcast on their website. These tracks have now been remastered and sequenced in a format that provides a more accessible survey of the project's idiosyncratic methods and accomplishments.
In the studio, the Glass Bees used amplified, acoustic, and electronic instruments as sound sources in pursuit of a naive, non-idiomatic music that responded to self-imposed constraints and situations. Sounds heard in this collection were improvised with maximum spontaneity and captured in real time on a simple stereo digital recorder with no overdubs. The musical vocabulary that emerged shows awareness of genres such as ambient, noise, outsider rock, free jazz, field recording, and new music, but does not fit cleanly into any of those categories. The six tracks on this album achieve a wide range of subtle and restless atmospheres — sometimes melodic and gentle, at other times loud and grating — built on shimmering drones and loops, urban and environmental recordings, treble-kicking noise, found texts, and fortuitous accidents. Holding it all together is the instinctual struggle of three individuals determined to find a shared vision of what music could be.
Tracks written, performed, and recorded by the Glass Bees: Jason Das, Chris Williams, Andrea Williams (tracks 2-5).
Sounds on this collection were originally released at glassbees.com, with the exception of “Bird in a White Cube,” which was captured during a sound check at Envoy Enterprises in July 2009 and appears here for the first time.
Smooth Space Editions is a cross-media publishing project based in Stuttgart, Germany. This is Smooth Space Edition #3. First edition of 50 copies released in 2023.
Active from 2005-2013, The Glass Bees began as a project for musical improvisation and collaboration, and evolved into a
malleable platform for work in sound and other media. The project was also an experiment in spontaneous music distribution, posting recordings as a podcast through its website, glassbees.com. ...more
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